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Jan Šefl (born 10 May 1990) is a Czech swimmer.He competed in the men's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. [1] [2] He represented the Czech Republic in men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The 4×100 metres medley relay is a medley race in which each of four swimmers on a team swims a 100-metre leg of the relay, each swimming a different stroke, in the following sequence: Backstroke (this can only be the first stroke, due to the necessity of starting this leg in the pool rather than by diving in) Breaststroke; Butterfly
The 4×50 metres medley relay is a medley race in which each of four swimmers on a team swims a 50-metre leg of the relay, each swimming a different stroke, in the following sequence: Backstroke (this can only be the first stroke, due to the necessity of starting this leg in the pool rather than by diving in); Breaststroke; Butterfly; and
Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes (freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley ( IM ) or by four swimmers as a medley relay .
Women's swimming was introduced into the Olympics in 1912; the first international swim meet for women outside the Olympics was the 1922 Women's Olympiad. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952. FINA renamed itself World Aquatics in December 2022. [10]
By 2006, she had set USA swimming National Meet qualifying times in every stroke, a rare and distinctive achievement. [ 3 ] In 2006, she was the youngest member of the U.S. Swimming Women's team at the Short Course World Championships in Shanghai, China.
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Pohl has been swimming since the age of five, initially for various Hessian clubs competitively. As a 19-year-old, she switched to open water swimming in 2014. [5] In her first year, she took part in the Bodenseequerung (Lake Constance Crossing), [6] the 27th Lake Zurich Swim in Switzerland [7] as well as the Clean Half Marathon Swim [8] and New World Harbour Race in Hong Kong.